On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:34:29 GMT, "Texensis"
wrote:


"Terry Horton" wrote in message
news | On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:26:18 GMT, Hombre
| wrote:
|
| It seems I have two kinds of Live Oaks in my yard. One is just now
| gaining foliage, is a bit straighter than the others that are
losing
| leaves.
|
| Anyone know other differences or names.
|
| _Quercus pungens_ (scrub oak, sandpaper oak) somewhat resembles an
| upright live oak.

That having been said, we have several live oak trees and each one
follows a schedule different from all the others when it comes to
dropping its leaves in the spring--not that there's not some overlap,
but each begins and finishes on its own timetable.


You also may be seeing the native live oak (Q. fusiformis) next to the
most common transplant from the Deep South (Q. virginiana). The
native tends to grow more slowly, while the nursery treatment of the
transplants tends to yield lots of crowded branches clustered near the
main trunk, often with very tight crotches (a warning sign for branch
failure, BTW).

But certainly it wouldn't be surprising to see two trees of identical
species dropping leaves at slightly different times.

Keith
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